A quick aside before we launch into today’s post. The yard sales weren’t really biting all that much this weekend—one of the more exciting ones I stopped at was selling a massage table and, uhh, this book to go along with it (making me question what sorts of things went on on that massage table)—but I did want to share this one craigslist ad I found:
SO CREEPY! Anyway, back to BOARD GAME WEEK, where nothing’s ever creepy.
Yesterday’s game was BORING. Do you have anything with some action? Maybe some space ships?? Maybe some space ships…in waterspout?? [Edit: that was supposed to say “outer-space” but I’m not always great at typing.]
YESSSS!! GALACTIC WARFARE!!! THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! CLEAN-UP ON AISLE DEATH!!
Let’s just pop this baby open, and…
Well…okay. I guess I would’ve liked the cards to be a little more descriptive; I’m a big fan of flavor-text in my board games. Maybe if I flip them over they’ll–
WAIT A SECOND.
Here’s the game’s instructions, straight from my Dad’s dot-matrix printer circa 1992:
At this point I would like to emphasize that all the games we’ve seen so far in BOARD GAME WEEK came from the same thrift store, on the same day. This is insane. Normally I’m lucky if I find a VHS game about horses, or a game about pizza football, and that’s it. Just keep in mind: We’re not even done yet.
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